The Blue Square MethodThe Mindset and Best-Practices of Top Fee-For-Service ProfessionalsThe Blue Square Method is a philosophy and process for the enlightened fee-for-service professional who is striving to grow on their own terms. Panoramic success requires continual refinement and optimization both personally and professionally. This actionable playbook is designed to put you on a predictable trajectory and ensure you never plateau.About the Authors:Duncan ...

Practice management is often misunderstood. The Advisor Playbook will take the mystery away.Practice management is confused with marketing, or is limited to strategizing about branding, or simply equated to old-school salesmanship.Practice management is how you build an organized toolbox of all your processes – branding, marketing, service activities, core functions – and constantly tune and keep that toolbox efficient and effortless. It's a network of interrelated skills, ...

The Blue Square Method is a philosophy and process for the enlightened fee-for-service professional who is striving to grow on their own terms. Panoramic success requires continual refinement and optimization both personally and professionally. This actionable playbook is designed to put you on a predictable trajectory and ensure you never plateau.

The Blue Square Method is a philosophy and process for the enlightened fee-for-service professional who is striving to grow on their own terms. Panoramic success requires continual refinement and optimization both personally and professionally. This actionable playbook is designed to put you on a predictable trajectory and ensure you never plateau.

The Advisor Playbook: Regain liberation and order in your personal and professional lifePractice management is often misunderstood. The Advisor Playbook will take the mystery away.Practice management is confused with marketing, or is limited to strategizing about branding, or simply equated to old-school salesmanship.Practice management is how you build an organized toolbox of all your processes – branding, marketing, service activities, core functions – and constan...

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it?If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will i...

The Long-Awaited Update for Building a Thriving ConsultancyCompletely updated for today’s busier-than-ever consultants, this classic guide covers the ins and outs for competing and winning in this ultracompetitive field. You’ll find step-by-step advice on how to raise capital, attract clients, create a marketing plan, and grow your business into a $1 million-per-year firm, plus brand-new material on:Blogging and social networkingGlobal consu...

THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIMEThe ability to craft an employee review that is meaningful and change-driven is what separates average supervisors from great managers. How often, though, have you struggled to find the most appropriate words for your needs?This completely revised and updated second edition of Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews provides hundreds of ready-made phrases you can use to clearly communicate any employee's perfor...

Revise your game plan--and profit from the change.If you need the best practices and ideas for creating business models that drive growth--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.This collection of HBR articles will help you:- Reinvent your business profitably- Set your model up for success with a winning competitive strategy- Test and change your assumptions about custom...

A concise extension of the business classic Topgrading, targeted to sales managersBrad Smart's Topgrading has sold more than 150,000 copies since 1999, making it the definitive book for executives who want to hire, coach, and retain top talent. Now Smart has teamed up with Greg Alexander, who used Topgrading to radically improve his sales force at EMC.In Topgrading for Sales, they have boiled down the key Topgrading ideas to a pithy 112 p...

Your customers have come a long waysince Value-Added Selling was publishedtwenty-five years ago. More knowledgeable,proactive, and price conscious, they regularlyscour the Internet for low prices andhave come to expect much more for eachdollar they spend.Now, Tom Reilly has updated his salesclassic to address a marketplace where slashingdeals has become the standard response tobuyers’ addictions to bargain-basement prices.Used to great success for more than twodecades and ...

Hands-on help for quicklyand persuasivelywriting company-mandated performance appraisalsWriting performance appraisals is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks managers face. Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews simplifies the job, providing a comprehensive collection of phrases that managers can use to describe employee performance, provide directions for improvement, and more. For example:"Sets priorities well""Mis...